Seventy years ago, Boleslaw Kostkiewicz was a lieutenant with Poland’s 14th cavalry regiment, stationed in the west of the country to meet the growing threat from Nazi Germany.\When Germany struck on September 1 1939, Mr Kostkiewicz, now 102, took part in a fighting retreat to the Polish capital. The memories are still fresh, and the old cavalry officer stills feel wary about Germany – today Poland’s Nato and European Union ally.
His view of the Russians, who co-operated with Germany in dismembering Poland by invading from the east on September 17, is even worse.
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